ἕρπω
creep, crawl
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἕρπω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 12 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:26 ἕρπω And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
- Genesis 1:28 ἕρπω And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
- Genesis 1:30 ἕρπω And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so.
- Genesis 6:20 ἕρπω Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to you, male and female to be fed with you.
- Leviticus 11:29 ἕρπω And these are unclean to you of reptiles upon the earth, the weasel, and the mouse, and the lizard,
- Leviticus 11:41 ἕρπω And every reptile that creeps on the earth, this shall be an abomination to you; it shall not be eaten.
- Leviticus 11:42 ἕρπω And every animal that creeps on its belly, and every one that goes on four feet continually, which abounds with feet among all the reptiles creeping upon the earth—you⌃ shall not eat it, for it is an abomination to you.
- Leviticus 11:43 ἕρπω And you⌃ shall not defile your souls with any of the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and you⌃ shall not be polluted with them, and you⌃ shall not be unclean by them.
- Leviticus 11:46 ἕρπω This is the law concerning beasts and birds and every living creature moving in the water, and every living creature creeping on the earth;
- Deuteronomy 4:18 ἕρπω the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are in the waters under the earth;
- Psalms 68:35 ἕρπω For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and men shall dwell there, and inherit it.
- Ezekiel 38:20 ἕρπω and the fish of the sea shall quake at the presence of the Lord, and the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the field, and all the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth; and the mountains shall be torn, and the valleys shall fall, and every wall on the land shall fall.
About this word
About this word
ἕρπω (hérpō), “creep, crawl,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 12 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →